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Saturday, September 7, 2013

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Bill de Blasio Is NOT Running a Racist Campaign
In an interview with New York magazine, outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg accused frontunner Bill de Blasio of running a “racist” campaign. He graciously conceded that de Blasio is not a “racist” personally, just that his campaign is racist. He accused de Blasio of appealing to the black vote by showing off his biracial family. The website Buzzfeed was quick to point out that Bloomberg knew how to

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Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Robert Shepherd: How Corporate Monopolies Control What Students LearnRobert Shepherd posted this explanation of how the publishing industry has changed and how a small number of corporate giants control what students learn: I think it important to distinguish between entrepreneurs attempting to bring new products to market that wil


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Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGTODAYRobert Rendo: Why Are We Destroying Education? For What?Now here is a first for this blog. A comment that appeared on the blog by Robert Rendo was picked up and posted by blogger Jonathan Pelto. It was indeed a brilliant statement, and somehow I failed to turn it into a post. So I am taking the post from Jonathan Pel